After finishing up schoolwork for the day, I set to filling up glycerin capsules with ground Red Clover I'd wild-harvested awhile back. Ground up a bit too much, being that those flower heads are fluffy. Took FOREVER to fill them. Sort of like stuffing dandelion seedlings into the capsules, if you can imagine.
Anyway, I'd just finished when I could hear Anastasia bok-buh-CAWing, and went to investigate. She was standing on the perch outside the coop, screaming to the world, "I JUST LAID AN EGG." We'd had one each from Piglet and Madelyn already today and I figured we were done. Must be that Anastasia read my mind and was wanting to make sure I understood that she too was an overachiever.
The funniest thing, though, was that there'd been someone raking across the street. I could hear them clearly. When she'd cluck so loudly, they'd stop raking. Then it didn't help with me talking to her in a high-pitched baby voice (one I use with Pugs and Chickens...never our babies), about how proud I was of her laying an egg. She preened. They began raking once again.
Gary and I got into a conversation last night about how noisy they are. He said that folks use blowers, weedeaters, play loud music and argue outside, what's the difference with chickens? And they're legal inside the city limits....the hens are, at least. We just like to stay under the radar, you know.
Must go eat my baked potato now that's finishing up in the microwave. Someone drew a smiley face on it with a magic marker a few days ago, but I'll just eat around that part.
Take care.
{current egg count to date---21}
